Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-27
WACO.
The Story OF the Troubles OF Mrs.
Tabor as Told by Herself to
aRepOrter,
The Examiner in Trouble with Its Printers.
More Facts about the Blocker
Killing.
Special to the Gazette.

corning the case Of a woman, Mrs. Tabor,
who took morphine in real estate agents
Office in this city last night. 1t was found
she had over $500 in little hand satchel.
This morning she was taken TO the South
ern hotel and given a room. A GAZETTE
reporter called to see her and found her
still suffering from the effects of the drug.
! To inquiries she made the following
| statement: Only name is A. r. Tabor and |
nv husbands name is f. l.. Tabor.
/ We have been married eleven years,
and six children have been bora to us;
five are dead, and one, boy, six years
! of age, is living; Mr.. Tabor has the child |
with him, and l suppose he is in Fort
Worth; about three months ago left him |
and went to Valley Mills, where my sister, |
Mrs. Davis, lives; my husband made re- |
peated efforts to get me to return and live
with him, but l would not do so when l
left him sold what property had and
took charge Of the money; l did this to
keep him from spending all l had
after staying three months at
Valley Mills, 1 wrote to my
husband telling him that l intended to
leave there and come to WsCO; on Sun
day last he came down TO Valley Mills,
and when | was ready to leave he beat,
scratched and ChOked me, and then threw
me out of the house; he then took the
child and left; l tried to have him arrest
ed, but the officer told me the complaint
would have TO be made ia McLennan
county; my husband then bought a
ticket for Temple and boarded the
train and left. I followed him to
McGregor, but having all my goods
packed and shipped to Waco on wagons l
came to this city. l arrived here yester-
dav afternoon and bought bottle of
whisky and then went to a drug store
and bought some morphine and put it
in the bottle; | will not tell where | got
the poison because I do not want to get
the drug clerk in trouble; tried to kill
my self because | am tired OF living. My
husband is as able to take care of the
child as 1 am, and 1 reckon he can
keep it,"
The sbove is about as near Mrs. Ia
boris words as can be given. as is stated
Fatove, she was lying in a sort of stupOr
= and could only speak few words with
out stopping and closing her eyes, and
seemingly went off into a sleep. The
proprietor of the hotel was present dur
ing the interview, and told the repOr er
Z he did not know anything about Mrs. Ia
Dor, only that she was brought there BY
gSQGlSmHu WHO GOlu ulll GudG SAlS udCI
plenty of money 10 pay her way.
Mrs. Tabor is q middle-aged woman,
and her face tells the story that she has
lived hard life. She is illlterate, and
IS when taken in charge yesterday evening
d used some very rough language. she
r. talked about killing herself as though she
thought it was duty she owed society
and the world, and did not seam to care
~ whether she ever recovered from the eff
IS fects of the poison or not.
n NEWSPAPER TROUBLES.
n The Examiner appeared on the half
Il shell this morning, and on the editorial
page gives the following explanation
"The reduced size of the Examiner this
morning is the result of a determination
long since formed aad since faithfully ad-
hered to- by the prOprietors of this paper
to manage their own property. This they
have done up to date, and this they pro,
pose to do while they are in the newspa,
per business. For some months the Exam
iner has been the victim, if victim we
- may call it, of a silent boycott from
, the knights of Labor for no other Of
fense than that of employing non-unior
printers, and on yesterday seven mem
bers of the Examiners force of compost
. tors who had on Sunday joined the Typo
- graphical Union, demanded that the Of
- fee be turned over to the union, and our
~ present efficient and faithful foreman he
~ discharged, and the rules governing uniOr
Il offices substituted for those which have
o. been IN force in this for years. The man
w " agement notified the gentlemen that
IL this was non-union office and that il
. Joining the Union they had voluntarily
- vacated their cases. Thus the matte
40 stands, and will stand for day or so IN
IA til another force of men can be gotten tC
~ fill the places of the unionists. We d(
- not DOUBT that the management Of thu
~ Examiner will have the full confidence AM
:" support of its patrons in this it's deGerml
- nati0n to run its own business and no
~ to submit to this species of tyrann.
=" from any quarter. The spirit of fair
- ness pervade5 Texas, and the Examine
~ 7" trusts that the dsy is long way off whe
= legitimate enterprise in this state is to b.
~, at the mercy of LABOR organizations "
- In reply to this tue discharged printer
~ publish a card this afternoon, in whiC
~ they say: Our chief complaint as to tn
80 way the office was run, was that there wa
y no regular payday. The office is still be
., hind with some of US as much as SEC
n We submit we were only endeavOriDg t.
~ Nv run our own business in attempting t.
~ secure weekly pay for weekly work. An
- other cause of complaint was that W
~ we were paid for midnight work no NOR
~ than is paid for day work. That Is, W
~ received only IS cents a Thousand
~ the sum paid all over the city, by tn
~ Day Office and all the JOB printing estah
,hNu hshments as well. Midnig
- work is always paid fC
CO. at the rate of cents a thous
Va and more than daylight work, for th
~ most obvious reasons. We can not Sc
i dd anything tyrannical in attempting to &c
~ u" fair pay for honest work. Our remsinin
- cause of complaint was directed at tn
To- partially of the foreman. There wer
yu 4 eight men st work on the cases in tn
~ -" Office, and every night one of I
~ in rotation would be left off by th
"a foreman for the benefit of pet of hi
In business there certainly should be 4